There’s been so much rage-flailing going on when I read the newspaper these days, I couldn’t pick just one topic to write about. And knowing my lack of conciseness, I need some enforced brevity. Haiku format to the rescue!
Bill 78
bill seventy-eight
curbs students’ free assembly
marches need vetting
fines student unions
who still march, cancels classes
new War Measures Act
unnecessary
and unconstitutional?
hope it gets tossed out
#casseroles not just
a tasty dinner option
noisy street protest
rest of Canada
is finally catching on
coverage improving
stalled talks to resume
a group may accept some hikes
they’ll stall by Tuesday
hard to see an end
to the standoff. too much at
stake to back down now.
EI Reform
EI appeal board
scrapped and amalgamated
with other government
service tribunals.
seekers required to take
jobs an hour from home
plenty of places
fully inaccessible
without one’s own car
unclear if skill sets
considered sensibly like
taxi driving docs?
much remains shady
many rules not explicit
hand-waving abounds
Sacking Ocean Scientists from DFO
continued contempt
for good science and research
government closes
contaminant lab
at Fisheries and Oceans.
primary program
monitors ocean
pollutants and their effect
on ecosystems
Experimental
Lakes Area is shut down.
list of enviro
science research and
programs that’ve been defunded
is many miles long.
minister has gall
to say research won’t suffer.
what utter hogwash!!!
CP Rail Strike
CP Rail on strike
of course knee-jerk back to work
legislation is
in the works. Amazed
there’s no fill-in-the-blanks bill
always on the table
Etobicoke-Central Election results
voter suppression
vote irregularities
yay democracy!
riding results are
declared null and void by judge
first time section of
Elections Act is
under consideration.
MP to appeal
opposition to
see if similar issues
occurred elsewhere too
would be surprised if
this was an isolated
thing. Oh, Canada!
8 replies on “Canadian Politics Haiku”
As a person in the science field who is likely to be unemployed soon, I am terrified.
As someone who’ll (hopefully) graduate in a stripe of enviro sci in the next couple of years, I worry that there’ll be no Environment Canada left, let alone available jobs there. :(
All of you people are so good in haiku-ing!
Yes, maybe I try to keep things positive. Else I would just have to say ‘Ugh, some people’.
This actually took me longer to write than my usual posts, and there may be a line or two that cheats in there. Good luck on the keeping a positive outlook!
Steve-o seems to hate
research, facts,and all science
what is he afraid of us knowing?
Brilliant! My contempt for his contempt of science knows no bounds.
As someone who is attempting to do research which looks critically at a) the CBC, and b) the history of the treatment and representation of indigenous Canadians and who depends heavily on the CBC and National Archives for said work…… my hatred for Steve-o is also boundless. I really think his rejection and remaking of the truth should be a MUCH MUCH bigger red flag for people than it is….dictatorships are, after all, Â built on the surpression of fact.
*nods sagely*Â Mmhmm, mmhmm.
As a side note, I’d looooove to read some of your research, if you’re willing to share it. It sounds so, so awesome.